Screening of "Tilaï"

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On Saturday 5th, before the start of the 22nd Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, was organized in JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) in Tokyo the screening of "Tilaï" a film from Burkina Faso. I went there with some friends including one frocm Burkina Faso who introduced us to the ambassador of his country.
"Tilaï" (the law) is the story of a forbidden love between a man and a woman belonging to someone else. It shows the relationship within an African family, the love and the proud. This film received the jury price in the Cannes festival in 1990.
We also good try some juice from Burkina Faso before a series of question about the experience some people had in Burkina Faso.

Hibiscus juice called Bissap.

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エンジェルビーツ (Angel beats)

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エンジェルビーツ is an anime series in 13 episodes directed by Seiji Kishi which appeared between November 2009 and May 2010.

After his death, Otonashi arrives in a high school for young souls who refused their death. The students are divided in two categories, the NPC some computer programmed students who are here to show people how to behave and are followed by the normal students and the Afterlife battle front and of course Angel. When people behave correctly forgetting their past life, they disappear to be reborn. The Afterlife battle front is fighting against the system as they cherish their past life no matter how hard it was because it was real. Their main enemy is Angel. But things are not that simple as Otonashi figures out another wait to be erased from this world and God is still nowhere to be seen.



I think this anime is really great. I like the how the story link all the characters together in the afterlife and give details to their past life. I also enjoy the war between Yuri and Angel, the research of God
and the desire of revenge present in most characters, especially Yuri. My favorite secondary characters are Hinata, Naoi and Yui probably due to the way they are interacting with each other.
Start watching here.
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Fish memory

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I think the title predicts that there will be a bit of ranting in this post so you have been warned.

I think fish memory is going to be the end of humanity anytime soon, that's an ever progressing epidemic that seems to have been unnoticed so far even though I'm confronted to it every day.

First I should define what I call "Fish memory".
Even though eating fish, give you a lot of DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid), fishes have a very bad memory like commonly people believe that it's about 3 secs or something like that. (In fact the memory span of a fish is more of about three months, which is not too long either)
Anyway what I call fish memory is when you are talking about something with someone or doing something with them and the next day they seem to have forgotten about it.

At first I really thought that people were doing it on purpose, that seems so impossible. They ask you something and the next day they will ask you again as if they didn't even listen to you. Or they will ask you to do something for them and forget that they did and ask again one hour later.
But in fact it seems that people really forgot.
I don't know where it's coming from. Are they just not paying attention? Is it that they don't care ? I'm not really sure, but the fact is, it seems to be spreading with increasing speed and people seem to be able to forget the same thing several time in a row.

So do you remember the beginning of the post ?

Image from here.

タイヨウのうた (Song of the Sun)

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タイヨウのうたis a japanese drama in 10 episodes from 2009. I already talked about the movie coming from the same story here.


















Kaoru Amane dreams of becoming a singer. She started to play the guitar when a boy abandoned his guitar in front of her bedroom at the hospital where she is treated for XP, a decease that forbid her to enter in contact with the sun. As her friend brought her a video of her day she sees the boy from the guitar again before meeting him as she is singing in the street. Then a love story will start. But he is caught up by his past and she is followed by the curse of the sun.

This drama is a lesson of courage because no matter how bad things are Amane will never give up on things and people she loves. I really like the music as well.
Start watching here.

Casting :
沢尻エリカ as Amane Kaoru (Shinobi)
山田孝之 as Fujishiro Koji (クローズZERO, クローズZERO II)
松下奈緒 as Tachibana Asami
佐藤めぐみ  as Matsumae Misaki (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1)
濱田岳  as Kato Haruo
川村陽介  as Tatsunami Ryusuke

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不能說的秘密 (secret)

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不能說的秘密 is a romantic Taiwanese movie from 2007 directed, written and played by the musician Jay Chou.

Ye Xianglun is a piano student who just transfer 淡江中學 (Tamkang (Danjiang) Secondary School), a school famous for talented musician, especially in piano. On his first day he meets Lu Xiaoyu another piano student playing a strange melody on the oldest piano of the school. She told him that it is a secret, and that he should never play this melody on this piano pretexting that it's not good enough. They start a mysterious relationship as Lu Xiaoyu seems to be sick and often disappears. When a mis-passed notes leads to Xianglun to accidentally kiss Qing Yi, Xiaoyu disappears again leading Xianglun to look for her, she comes back for graduation before disappearing again leading Xianglun to discover her secret. However the old piano room is to soon be destroyed.



I really like this movie because the music is beautiful and the story is also touching and funny at time. The character of Lu Xiaoyu is captivating due to her secret and she face the incomprehension of a lot of people including her mother and teacher who she trusted. Also even if he doesn't understand everything Xianglun is always trying his best to be there for her. There are very interesting musical part such as for example the piano battle.


Casting :

周杰倫 (周杰伦) (Jay Chou) as 葉湘倫 (Ye Xianglun)
桂綸鎂 (桂纶镁) (Kwai Lun-mei) as 路小雨 (Lu Xiaoyu)
黄秋生 (黄秋生) (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) 小倫爸爸: Xianglun's father
曾愷玹 (曾恺玹) (Alice Tzeng) as 晴依 (Qing Yi)
宋健彰 (Devon Song) as 阿宝/阿寶 (Abao)
黃俊郎 (黄俊郎) (Huang Junlang) as 阿郎 (Alang)
詹宇豪 (Yuhao Zhan) as 雨豪 (Yu Hao)

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Vlog : How this blog started.

I decided as a new year resolution to make a video a week. You can already see the problem, or if you don't check the date. Anyway after procrastinating on doing it, I finally decided to do it, today. It's a bit incredible how things that you imagine are going to take for ages actually don't take that much time in the end.

I don't really have rules for the videos. This time it's all about how I started this blog. Next time I'm not sure. I think I would just follow my mood. You can always remind me to do something if you don't get a video next week.

I'm not really comfortable taking video, lack of practice I think. I also realized that I make grammar mistakes while speaking so you'll have to bear with it. And I'm speaking really slowly as well. I guess it will get better with time.

Japan : Trip to Kansai, 京都, 京都タワ and end

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After diner we went to 京都タワ, some of us too the lift to the top to have a panoramic view of the city at night. That was really good. We could see the light from the temple that the group visited before we joined them. Then we went back down to the shop to buy some お土産　and at the closure we decided to go at the top of the train station while waiting for our bus. We took the bus back to Shinjuku and arrived rather tired the next morning. With a little bit of an effort we were back in Chofu to finish our night sleep.
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Then I got told there were two 京都タワ and I felt for it, ばか私。